Himmat Shah

About Artist

HIMMAT SHAH Born on 22nd July 1933 Himmat Shah has run great risks. He has risked much more by using a medium which is exhaustible and a technique which demands sensitive and careful handling. By remaining true to his...

HIMMAT SHAH Born on 22nd July 1933 Himmat Shah has run great risks. He has risked much more by using a medium which is exhaustible and a technique which demands sensitive and careful handling. By remaining true to his commitment to an art that ignores the strategies of the art market & the materialism of the art industry. Confined to his studio Garhi, he appears a figure of adolescent unease, but, listening to him, one begins to discern the depth of the truth he utters. Shah remains a committed professional, true to his tools and occupational skills, maniacally obsessed with every detail that concerns his technique, which he has developed and individualized to an extreme degree, along with aesthetic concepts and ideas that flow from his creative being.

Though Shah is seen primarily as a sculptor, his initial training as a painter cannot be overlooked. Interestingly, in some of his works one can decipher his attempt to amalgamate the three - dimensional with the two - dimensional, creating in the process unique artworks. Individually each sculpture by Shah holds its own as an autonomous and independent art work. Seen from a distance the works are rich in form and texture.On close inspection they establish a world which holds together diverse elements of physical and visual references.Nothing in the entire process looks staged because of the spontaneity and dynamism.The end result offers the viewer a sumptuous structure, which carries a certain definite and strong element adding a sense of contradiction and delightful tension. Himmat Shah was sent to gharshala in bhavnagar to study in a school affiliated to Dakshinamurti in Gujarat. Here a gandhian artist educator introduced the young lad to art practice and theory and to the concept of art as a way to life. Shah went on to enroll with the J.J School of Art Bombay, which he left to join the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda. The artist left Baroda for Delhi and since then there has been no looking back. His work can be found in several important collections all over the world and he has received several awards and scholarships in his 50yrs of work experience.

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About Artist

HIMMAT SHAH Born on 22nd July 1933 Himmat Shah has run great risks. He has risked much more by using a medium which is exhaustible and a technique which demands sensitive and careful handling. By remaining true to his commitment to an art that ignores the strategies of the art market & the materialism of the art industry. Confined to his studio Garhi, he appears a figure of adolescent unease, but, listening to him, one begins to discern the depth of the truth he utters. Shah remains a committed professional, true to his tools and occupational skills, maniacally obsessed with every detail that concerns his technique, which he has developed and individualized to an extreme degree, along with aesthetic concepts and ideas that flow from his creative being.

Though Shah is seen primarily as a sculptor, his initial training as a painter cannot be overlooked. Interestingly, in some of his works one can decipher his attempt to amalgamate the three - dimensional with the two - dimensional, creating in the process unique artworks. Individually each sculpture by Shah holds its own as an autonomous and independent art work. Seen from a distance the works are rich in form and texture.On close inspection they establish a world which holds together diverse elements of physical and visual references.Nothing in the entire process looks staged because of the spontaneity and dynamism.The end result offers the viewer a sumptuous structure, which carries a certain definite and strong element adding a sense of contradiction and delightful tension. Himmat Shah was sent to gharshala in bhavnagar to study in a school affiliated to Dakshinamurti in Gujarat. Here a gandhian artist educator introduced the young lad to art practice and theory and to the concept of art as a way to life. Shah went on to enroll with the J.J School of Art Bombay, which he left to join the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda. The artist left Baroda for Delhi and since then there has been no looking back. His work can be found in several important collections all over the world and he has received several awards and scholarships in his 50yrs of work experience.